Digging through the Linux Kernel
So I stumbled on two things today that might be goods for folks wanting to delve into the Linux kernel for education or development.
The first is the Interactive Linux Kernel Map. This provides some detail on the layout of the kernel and the interaction between various parts.
The second is the Linux Weather Forecast. This gives you a better insight on the status and progress of features going into the kernel. For example, if the lead developer of the feature is MIA, the feature is probably not going into the kernel in the near term.
Hope this helps your kernel habit!
Moving Money
Sometimes a dime is worth 10 cents, other times it is worth $1.9 million and needs to be transported across the country.
This is the story of the latter, as published in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Enjoy!
Transformers – The Personality Quiz
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Google reads too – a first look!
Well hopefully I don’t start sounding like a Google sycophant but I want to recommend YAGP (Yet Another Google Product) for you to try out. And this time it’s Google Reader… I will say that I tried Bloglines about a year ago and wasn’t as impressed as I am with this but haven’t tried it recently to see if there have been improvements.
I’ve been using the Sage Add-on for Firefox and it works great. But I’ve been wanting a couple of things that it doesn’t seem to provide.
1. Syncing of read items between all of my computers. – Having it on a central server handles this.
2. Off-line capability for taking it with me on long flights. – Google Gears allows for the reader to cache the latest 2000 entries locally.
Setting is up was pretty easy. I exported an OPML file with all of my feeds from Sage and imported it into Google reader. Google Reader uses tags to create “folders” and each feed can have multiple tags (although there doesn’t seem to be a way to “nest” folders as you can in Sage).
Like Gmail you can “star” particular rss entries for easier lookup later. I didn’t think I needed this until I actually tried it and figured out it does make for a nice feature. And in particular it will probably make it alot easier for me to find things that I mean to “blog” about later.
One other feature that I haven’t really messed with is called “Trends”. It provides all kinds of statistical information on what feeds you read and how many articles you have shared, or starred, etc. I know this is part of the scary “Google knows too much” vibe but it is kind of cool that they provide this info to you as well as to themselves but I have yet figure out how this will be useful to me …
There are also a handful of other feature which you can read about on the site itself but so far I am liking it and give it a thumbs up for first impressions. If you’ve got a better solution … please let me know!
Site Tweaked – Everything is fine (?)
I updated WordPress as well as several of the plug-ins used on this site. Everything should be working correctly … but if it isn’t please let me know.
Happy Sunday!
Update: Had to use the “nuclear option” to get the rss feed back up and running. Please let me know of any other issues
Essential Firefox Add-Ons
A blog-less friend of mine put together this list of his favorite Firefox add-ons and thought it would be a good complement to my “Essential Windows Software” post from last year. I am posting it here as a good little bit of useful info with his permission. Now I need to go try these out.
Enjoy!
1-ClickWeather (5-day forecast as a toolbar with extended info as tooltips and regional radar button)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1035
Adblock Plus (blocks ads, auto-updates, works very well)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
Works well with its internal subscription links, recommends avoiding “filterset G” from the Firefox addon pages.
Ad database subscriptions I use are:
—EasyList (USA)
—EasyElement (works with next item – Element Hiding Helper)
—ABP Tracking Filter
Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper (an add-on to an add-on! I can’t tell if it helps, but at least it doesn’t crash)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4364
ColorfulTabs (randomly colored tabs, or colors derived from hashing the URL)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1368
CookieSafe (better control than normal built-in cookie options)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2497
Download Statusbar (download-o-meters as a little status bar. Nifty!)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26
FireFTP (good little FTP client for the Firefox Tools menu)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684
Fission (Safari-style progress bar along the address bar. Looks nice but you have to fix the color.)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1951
FoxLingo (translates all languages to all others through various sites… seems to work about as well as babelfish)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2444
Resurrect Pages (finds archived versions of dead web pages — works very well!)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2570
SafeCache (keep sites from checking for other sites’ cached info – paranoia is good!)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1474
Shazou (WHOIS info with popup map)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2993
Spamavert.com (generate temp email addresses and lets you send back email verification)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4533
Stumble Upon (nice Find-A-Cool-Site thing, can share a toolbar with 1-click weather)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138
Video Downloader (lets you save vids from YouTube, Google Video, etc)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390
Random ads make consumers happy
I really like this ad but I’m not quite sure why I do:
My wife gets a great big kick out of this one:
Now Reading
Planned books:
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Current books:
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The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, Book 4) by Robert Jordan
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A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) by George R.R. Martin
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1776 by David McCullough
Recent books:
- Lamb by Christopher Moore
- The Demonata #6: Demon Apocalypse (Demonata) by Darren Shan
- A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2) by George R.R. Martin
- The Demonata #5: Blood Beast (Demonata) by Darren Shan
- Demonata #4, The: Bec: Book 4 in the Demonata series (Demonata) by Darren Shan
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